Female mouthbrooders adjust incubation duration to perceived risk of predation
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An experiment is conducted to examine whether females of the mouth-brooding African cichlid Ctenochromis horei adjust the duration of incubation to perceived offspring predation risk. Brood care duration should be considered as a flexible and potentially costly trait when investigating costs and benefits of parental care.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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Mouthbrooding and biparental care: An unexpected combination, but male brood care pays
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The factors maintaining mouthbrooding and biparental care in Eretmodus cyanostictus are studied. The results indicate that the male's brood care effort is an important cause of the maintenance of biparental care and monogamy in E. cyanosticus.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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Males of the social wasp Ropalidia marginata can feed larvae, given an opportunity
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A study investigating the unfamiliar role of the male social wasp (Ropalidia marginata) in feeding the larvae in the absence of the female is presented.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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